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Quotes by Dramatist
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."
64
"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.."
64
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
63
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
63
"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
63
"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
63
"Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world."
63
"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
63
"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
63
"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
63
"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."
62
"A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper."
62
"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."
62
"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."
62
"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."
62
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action."
62
"I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done."
62
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
62
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